Publications

3,796 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  Strahl, W., Raghunathan, A., Sahinidis, N.V., Gounaris, C., "Constructing Tight Quadratic Relaxations for Global Optimization: II. Underestimating Difference-of-Convex (D.C.) Functions", arXiv, August 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Strahl2024aug2,
    • author = {Strahl, William and Raghunathan, Arvind and Sahinidis, Nikolaos V. and Gounaris, Chrysanthose},
    • title = {{Constructing Tight Quadratic Relaxations for Global Optimization: II. Underestimating Difference-of-Convex (D.C.) Functions}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13058v1}
    • }
  •  Strahl, W., Raghunathan, A., Sahinidis, N.V., Gounaris, C., "Constructing Tight Quadratic Relaxations for Global Optimization: I. Outer-Approximating Twice-Differentiable Convex Functions", arXiv, August 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Strahl2024aug,
    • author = {Strahl, William and Raghunathan, Arvind and Sahinidis, Nikolaos V. and Gounaris, Chrysanthose},
    • title = {{Constructing Tight Quadratic Relaxations for Global Optimization: I. Outer-Approximating Twice-Differentiable Convex Functions}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13053}
    • }
  •  Chakrabarty, A., Vanfretti, L., Bortoff, S.A., Deshpande, V.M., Wang, Y., Paulson, J.A., Zhan, S., Laughman, C.R., "Assessing Building Control Performance Using Physics-Based Simulation Models and Deep Generative Networks", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024, DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA60707.2024.10666585, August 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-113 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Chakrabarty2024aug,
    • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Vanfretti, Luigi and Bortoff, Scott A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Wang, Ye and Paulson, Joel A. and Zhan, Sicheng and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Assessing Building Control Performance Using Physics-Based Simulation Models and Deep Generative Networks}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/CCTA60707.2024.10666585},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-113}
    • }
  •  Park, S., Wang, Y., Qiao, H., Sakamoto, Y., Wang, B., Liu, D., "Control Co-Design for Electric Vehicles with Driving Cycle Synthesis Encoding Road Traffic and Driver Characteristics", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024, DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA60707.2024.10666575, August 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-114 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Park2024aug,
    • author = {Park, Seho and Wang, Yebin and Qiao, Hongtao and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Wang, Bingnan and Liu, Dehong},
    • title = {{Control Co-Design for Electric Vehicles with Driving Cycle Synthesis Encoding Road Traffic and Driver Characteristics}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/CCTA60707.2024.10666575},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-114}
    • }
  •  Vanfretti, L., Laughman, C.R., "Power System Modeling for Identification and Control Applications using Modelica and OpenIPSL", Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), August 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-112 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Vanfretti2024aug,
    • author = {Vanfretti, Luigi and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Power System Modeling for Identification and Control Applications using Modelica and OpenIPSL}},
    • booktitle = {Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-112}
    • }
  •  Bortoff, S.A., Qiao, H., Laughman, C.R., "Modeling and Control of a Multi-Mode Heat Pump", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024, August 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-111 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bortoff2024aug,
    • author = {Bortoff, Scott A. and Qiao, Hongtao and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Modeling and Control of a Multi-Mode Heat Pump}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-111}
    • }
  •  Sorouifar, F., Paulson, J.A., Wang, Y., Quirynen, R., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "Bayesian Forecasting with Deep Generative Disturbance Models in Stochastic MPC for Building Energy Systems", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA60707.2024.10666537, August 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-110 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Sorouifar2024aug,
    • author = {Sorouifar, Farshud and Paulson, Joel A. and Wang, Ye and Quirynen, Rien and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {{Bayesian Forecasting with Deep Generative Disturbance Models in Stochastic MPC for Building Energy Systems}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/CCTA60707.2024.10666537},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-110}
    • }
  •  Shimane, Y., Ho, K., Weiss, A., "Optimization-based Phase-Constrained Station-Keeping Control on Libration Point Orbit", AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, August 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-109 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Shimane2024aug,
    • author = {Shimane, Yuri and Ho, Koki and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {{Optimization-based Phase-Constrained Station-Keeping Control on Libration Point Orbit}},
    • booktitle = {AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-109}
    • }
  •  Wiebe, F., Turcato, N., Dalla Libera, A., Zhang, C., Vincent, T., Vyas, S., Giacomuzzo, G., Carli, R., Romeres, D., Sathuluri, A., Zimmermann, M., Belousov, B., Peters, J., Kirchner, F., Kumar, S., "Reinforcement Learning for Athletic Intelligence: Lessons from the 1st “AI Olympics with RealAIGym” Competition", Internation Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), DOI: 10.24963/​ijcai.2024/​1043, August 2024, pp. 8833-8837.
    BibTeX TR2024-108 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wiebe2024aug,
    • author = {Wiebe, Felix and Turcato, Niccolò and Dalla Libera, Alberto and Zhang, Chi and Vincent, Theo and Vyas, Shubham and Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Carli, Ruggero and Romeres, Diego and Sathuluri, Akhil and Zimmermann, Markus and Belousov, Boris and Peters, Jan and Kirchner, Frank and Kumar, Shivesh},
    • title = {{Reinforcement Learning for Athletic Intelligence: Lessons from the 1st “AI Olympics with RealAIGym” Competition}},
    • booktitle = {Internation Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {8833--8837},
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2024/1043},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-108}
    • }
  •  Patkar, A., Liu, D., Wang, Y., Youcef-Toumi, K., "Magnetic flux map acquisition using a compressed sensing method", The 19th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2024), DOI: 10.1109/​ICIEA61579.2024.10665180, August 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-107 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Patkar2024aug,
    • author = {Patkar, Abhishek and Liu, Dehong and Wang, Yebin and Youcef-Toumi, Kamal},
    • title = {{Magnetic flux map acquisition using a compressed sensing method}},
    • booktitle = {The 19th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2024)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICIEA61579.2024.10665180},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-107}
    • }
  •  Kirihara, H., Ibuki, S., Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Watanabe, T., "Point Cloud Geometry Compression using Parameterized Graph Fourier Transform", ACM SIGCOMM, DOI: 10.1145/​3672196.367340, August 2024, pp. 52-57.
    BibTeX TR2024-106 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kirihara2024aug,
    • author = {Kirihara, Hinata and Ibuki, Shoichi and Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi},
    • title = {{Point Cloud Geometry Compression using Parameterized Graph Fourier Transform}},
    • booktitle = {ACM SIGCOMM},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {52--57},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {ACM},
    • doi = {10.1145/3672196.367340},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-106}
    • }
  •  Safaoui, S., Vinod, A.P., Chakrabarty, A., Quirynen, R., Yoshikawa, N., Di Cairano, S., "Safe multi-agent motion planning under uncertainty for drones using filtered reinforcement learning", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, DOI: 10.1109/​TRO.2024.3387010, Vol. 40, pp. 2529-2542, July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-048 PDF Video
    • @article{Safaoui2024jul,
    • author = {Safaoui, Sleiman and Vinod, Abraham P. and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Quirynen, Rien and Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
    • title = {{Safe multi-agent motion planning under uncertainty for drones using filtered reinforcement learning}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
    • year = 2024,
    • volume = 40,
    • pages = {2529--2542},
    • month = jul,
    • doi = {10.1109/TRO.2024.3387010},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-048}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Meng Chang, , Cevher, V., De Micheli, G., "Hardware-Efficient Quantization for Green Custom Foundation Models", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-105 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2024jul2,
    • author = {Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Meng Chang and Cevher, Volkan and De Micheli, Giovanni},
    • title = {{Hardware-Efficient Quantization for Green Custom Foundation Models}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-105}
    • }
  •  Liu, J., Lowy, A., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "Efficient Differentially Private Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) workshop (Next Generation of AI Safety), July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-104 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Liu2024jul,
    • author = {Liu, Jing and Lowy, Andrew and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Efficient Differentially Private Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) workshop (Next Generation of AI Safety)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-104}
    • }
  •  Zhang, M., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Hauser, K., "Simultaneous Trajectory Optimization and Contact Selection for Contact-rich Manipulation with High-Fidelity Geometry", arXiv, July 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Zhang2024jul5,
    • author = {Zhang, Mengchao and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Hauser, Kris},
    • title = {{Simultaneous Trajectory Optimization and Contact Selection for Contact-rich Manipulation with High-Fidelity Geometry}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16976}
    • }
  •  Bimbraw, K., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., "Random Channel Ablation for Robust Hand Gesture Classification with Multimodal Biosignals", International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, DOI: 10.1109/​EMBC53108.2024.10782851, July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-103 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bimbraw2024jul3,
    • author = {Bimbraw, Keshav and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Random Channel Ablation for Robust Hand Gesture Classification with Multimodal Biosignals}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/EMBC53108.2024.10782851},
    • issn = {2694-0604},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-7149-9},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-103}
    • }
  •  Ma, J., Qiao, H., Laughman, C.R., "A Physics-Constrained Data-Driven Modeling Approach for Vapor Compression Systems", International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue, July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-102 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ma2024jul,
    • author = {Ma, JiaCheng and Qiao, Hongtao and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{A Physics-Constrained Data-Driven Modeling Approach for Vapor Compression Systems}},
    • booktitle = {International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-102}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Cevher, V., "Quantum-PEFT: Ultra Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-101 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2024jul,
    • author = {Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Cevher, Volkan},
    • title = {{Quantum-PEFT: Ultra Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-101}
    • }
  •  Kato, S., Wang, P., Koike-Akino, T., Fujihashi, T., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., "Multi-Band Wi-Fi Neural Dynamic Fusion", arXiv, July 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Kato2024jul,
    • author = {Kato, Sorachi and Wang, Pu and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Fujihashi, Takuya and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T.},
    • title = {{Multi-Band Wi-Fi Neural Dynamic Fusion}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12937}
    • }
  •  Hase, R., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Parsons, K., "Variational Randomized Smoothing for Sample-Wise Adversarial Robustness", arXiv, July 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Hase2024jul,
    • author = {Hase, Ryo and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Parsons, Kieran},
    • title = {{Variational Randomized Smoothing for Sample-Wise Adversarial Robustness}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11844}
    • }
  •  Zhang, J., Zhang, F., Rodriguez, C., Ben-Shabat, I., Cherian, A., Gould, S., "Temporally Grounding Instructional Diagrams in Unconstrained Videos", arXiv, July 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Zhang2024jul4,
    • author = {Zhang, Jiahao and Zhang, Frederic and Rodriguez, Cristian and Ben-Shabat, Itzik and Cherian, Anoop and Gould, Stephen},
    • title = {{Temporally Grounding Instructional Diagrams in Unconstrained Videos}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12066}
    • }
  •  Shirai, Y., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., "Robust Pivoting Manipulation using Contact Implicit Bilevel Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, DOI: 10.1109/​TRO.2024.3422053, pp. 3425-3444, July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-096 PDF Video
    • @article{Shirai2024jul,
    • author = {Shirai, Yuki and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind},
    • title = {{Robust Pivoting Manipulation using Contact Implicit Bilevel Optimization}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {3425--3444},
    • month = jul,
    • doi = {10.1109/TRO.2024.3422053},
    • issn = {1941-0468},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-096}
    • }
  •  Lu, Z., Wang, Y., "A Differentiable Dynamic Modeling Approach to Integrated Motion Planning and Actuator Physical Design for Mobile Manipulators", Journal of Field Robotics, DOI: 10.1002/​rob.22394, July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-095 PDF
    • @article{Lu2024jul,
    • author = {Lu, Zehui and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {{A Differentiable Dynamic Modeling Approach to Integrated Motion Planning and Actuator Physical Design for Mobile Manipulators}},
    • journal = {Journal of Field Robotics},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • doi = {10.1002/rob.22394},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-095}
    • }
  •  Giacomuzzo, G., Cescon, R., Romeres, D., Carli, R., Dalla Libera, A., "Lagrangian Inspired Polynomial Estimator for black-box learning and control of underactuated systems", Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC), Abate, Alessandro and Cannon, Mark and Margellos, Kostas and Papachristodoulou, Antonis, Eds., July 2024, pp. 1292-1304.
    BibTeX TR2024-097 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Giacomuzzo2024jul,
    • author = {Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Cescon, Riccardo and Romeres, Diego and Carli, Ruggero and Dalla Libera, Alberto},
    • title = {{Lagrangian Inspired Polynomial Estimator for black-box learning and control of underactuated systems}},
    • booktitle = {Learning for Dynamics \& Control Conference (L4DC)},
    • year = 2024,
    • editor = {Abate, Alessandro and Cannon, Mark and Margellos, Kostas and Papachristodoulou, Antonis},
    • pages = {1292--1304},
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {PMLR},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-097}
    • }
  •  Zhang, X., Mao, W., Mowlavi, S., Benosman, M., Basar, T., "Controlgym: Large-Scale Control Environments for Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning Algorithms", Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC), July 2024, pp. 181-196.
    BibTeX TR2024-098 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2024jul2,
    • author = {Zhang, Xiangyuan and Mao, Weichao and Mowlavi, Saviz and Benosman, Mouhacine and Basar, Tamer},
    • title = {{Controlgym: Large-Scale Control Environments for Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning Algorithms}},
    • booktitle = {Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {181--196},
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {PMLR},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-098}
    • }